7. Dear Client,
We are thrilled to share coverage of <brand name> in
yesterday’s New York Times (Circulation: 2,517,307) as a result
of our proactive outreach…
The story, titled “blah blah blah” includes <your brand name> in a
roundup of …and quotes <your staff member>
The estimated ad value of this placement is $6,947. The story
also ran online on NYTimes.com (UMV: 70,574,252), and you
may view it here.
17. What are their
needs?
Channels
SEE Dog questions
Organic search
media relations
social
THINK
Have a dog with a
health issue
Media relations,
email, website
content
DO
Final research
Make an appt
pricing, support
Review sites, phone,
demo/meeting
CARE
You solved my prob
connectors
Review sites, social
networks
19. SEE
Build awareness
Know the problem, not the solution
Audience metrics
Tactics
Media relations - case studies
SEO
Social engagement
Metrics
Traffic
Followers and reach
referral traffic - and what did they do
email subscribers
23. DO
Close the deal
Outcomes metrics
Tactics
website funnel
sales training for phone calls
Metrics
Sales
# of demos
# of phone calls and online orders
conversion rate
25. CARE
Encourage brand advocacy
action and amplification metrics
Tactics
influencer campaign
reputation management
Metrics
# of positive reviews
# of brand advocates/influencers
Rank on Tripadvisor, Yelp, Google
46. Lisa Gerber
Big Leap Creative Integrated Communications
www.bigleapcreative.com/blog
lisa@bigleapcreative.com
@lisagerber
bigleapcreative.com/ncprsa
Notas del editor
I turned to the internet to figure out what to do. In this case, I used google.
Anyone want to take a guess at what my bill was?
Imagine how much revenue that has brought in over it’s 13 years of being in existence.
Imagine you are the PR person who got that story placed. and you’re not tracking actions on it but instead the output - the fact that you got a Seattle PI story placed, but have no idea what it’s actually doing for business?
I turned to the internet to figure out what to do. In this case, I used google.
So, you see the difference in the impact, right? Measuring and reporting the right things is PRs own little PR problem. Imagine your the PR pro for the vet hospital with that story - and you’re reporting ad equivalency?
there is too much preoccupation on viral videos and front page of NYT but does anyone have any idea what that story has brought in terms of customers?
Search engines and algorithms are getting smarter - they understand context and geography. and social networks.
The work we do has great impact and we have to be able to track and measure it properly.
We get phone calls for media relations, a new mobile responsive website, we want to be on the bestseller list of Amazon. We misunderstand that as the goal. and we start doing stuff like creating a new website or doing media outreach without a clear consensus on what everyone involves sees as success, and what are we trying to get people to do? You start with this and maybe your leaders don’t know what they want, now we can go through this exercise to make sure we are all clear on the goals. It might be a sales number, monthly recurring revenue, occupancy number, a specific sales number like my client…It could also help you avoid disaster with those who have unrealistic goals.
what does this do? A few things. Manages expectations - Cascade story
It helps everyone get aligned on what we’re trying to achieve and what is realistic. lodging/PR - for what?
Now it’s up to us to figure out how to do it. What we do is break out the audience into buckets based on where they are in the purchase path. I’ll explain.
There is a hierarchy of metrics, and therefore tactics based on where our audience is.
So we look at those buckets in context of their needs and channels to reach them.
See - high level
Do - comparisons. REI,
Care - brand advocates love to talk about experiences.
if we understand each of these segments and their needs, we know what we wan
In my example searching for a solution for jackson, I showed you one possible purchase path of many many hundreds of variables.
This might not be within our scope of work, but we include it in the plan to show our understanding of the big picture and that we are aligned with the bigger goal. Still, if we take the example of the vet hospital and me, the time between the see stage and purchase could be five minutes. and when that is the case, we want the credit. This is where it gets tricky though. In my experience, I’ve found attribution to be quite difficult. they might
Word of mouth: Now we want to activate our loyal audience to spread the word - what kinds of things are we doing ehre to generate content that feeds the first three buckets?
Here is what I love about this approach. Our jobs are, in essence, to influence action. The underlying thread on every tactic. What are we trying to achieve and how are we going to measure it? Forces us to build campaigns that think that through -
email - click throughs
PR - landing pages and unique urls
We have the technology now to track and measure our own efforts so we have no excuse. When our plans are anchored in metrics, we do things more meaningfully, and we get to make decisions based on evidence, not gut. A lot of PR/marketing pros aren’t having this conversation. it sets us apart and it shows we mean business but it also forces us to get strategic.